Admiral and hydrographer (map making for sailors). Developed the Beaufort Scale (for winds) in 1805. Born Co. Meath, Ireland. He kept journals, written in code, and these reveal that, as a widower in his sixties, his relationship with his sister, always close, became incestuous for three years, until he married again, to his step-niece. Died Brighton.
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Sir Francis Beaufort
Commemorated ati
Sir Beaufort
London County Council Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774 - 1857, Admiral and hydrogr...
Other Subjects
R. H. Preston
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
General Sir Hubert Gough, GCMC, KCB, KCVO
Born Ireland. Senior army officer in WW1, commanding the Fifth Army, not particularly successfully. Died in London.
1 memorial
Lieutenant Austen Gardner Shaw
Austen Gardner Shaw was born on 26 January 1917, the younger of the two children of Herbert Shaw and May Shaw née Gardner. His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1917 in the Barnet Registra...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
J. C. F. Jones
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
